UNESCO, mulheres e biopoder no Brasil: alguns apontamentos

Abstract

This article interrogates the practices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) towards brazilian women. Elaborates the Foucault´s analytics of racists and utilitarian discourses that promote discipline and securitarian regulations through education and culture. The concern with the violated rights in developing countries named by UNESCO and its designated partners, constitutes an important bulkhead to violence. However, guidelines and practices recommended by this multilateral Organization although potencially capable of producing specific improvements in the lives of some women, update neoliberal biopolitics justified by humanitarian and universalizing principles. Women are on UNESCO’s agenda from the perspective of threatened security and security, translated into public policies aimed at them and their children.